DudleyNC
A town of 2,305, settled in 1840.
Is Dudley a good place to live?
Dudley’s best subject grade is an A+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D for incomes. 35% of residents live below the poverty line in Dudley, where North Carolina’s towns sit at 13% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Only 2 of North Carolina’s 450 towns score higher on cost of living. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 5 of North Carolina’s 451 towns do worse. Dudley has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Dudley stand out
Where Dudley beats most towns.
Typical home value
Jobs vs. working residents
Every workday, about 850 people come to Dudley for work
Where Dudley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Dudley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Dudley is from typical.
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Moving to Dudley: who provides what
Dudley is unincorporated, so Wayne County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Dudley.
Dudley’s typical home value is about $128K
The typical Dudley home is worth about $128,000, down 6.5% in a year, 61% below the North Carolina typical home. At $808 a month, Dudley’s median rent is below both the North Carolina town median ($1,085 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). 81% of Dudley households own their home.
| Dudley | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 67% | 73% |
| Median rent | $808 a month | $1,085 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Dudley’s schools rank behind 74% of North Carolina districts
Its public schools are run by the Wayne County Public Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brogden PrimaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 689 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NC on state tests and graduation
Dudley has 2.9 jobs for every working resident, and 850 people commute in
Most working residents leave Dudley for work: only 3% work in town. The median household income in Dudley is $42,000. Jobs based in Dudley grew to 859 in 2023, 225 more than in 2013.
| Dudley | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $42,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 3% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Dudley are less healthy than 84% of U.S. towns
Dudley beats the North Carolina average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15. 18% of adults have diabetes in Dudley. Only 9 of the 290 North Carolina towns we compare have a higher share of adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance than Dudley.
| Dudley | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 13% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 10% | 8.1% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Dudley | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.5% | 7.9% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 80.1% | 76.7% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 30.2% | 13.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mild winters and hot summers in Dudley
Dudley has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Dudley’s July high is 90°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Hurricanes leads a high hazard risk in Dudley
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 62% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Dudley
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Dudley
About 6 of every 100 Dudley residents are enrolled in college, about the same as North Carolina.
About Dudley
Census-designated place in North Carolina, United States
Dudley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States, about 9 miles south of Goldsboro. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 826. Dudley is included in the Goldsboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Elevation
- 184 ft
- ZIP code
- 28333
Questions about Dudley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Dudley, NC expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.
What is Dudley, NC known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Charles Kornegay and Jesse Slocumb.